been in the days of our fathers, we would not
have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

23:31. Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the
sons of them that killed the prophets.

23:32. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

23:33. You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the
judgment of hell?

23:34. Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes:
and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will
scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.

23:35. That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed
upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of
Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and
the altar.

That upon you may come, etc... Not that they should suffer more than
their own sins justly deserved; but that the justice of God should now
fall upon them with such a final vengeance, once for all, as might
comprise all the different kinds of judgments and punishments, that had
at any time before been inflicted for the shedding of just blood.

23:36. Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this
generation.

23:37. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest
them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together
thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and
thou wouldst not?

23:38. Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate.

23:39. For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say:
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Matthew Chapter 24

Christ foretells the destruction of the temple, with the signs that
shall come before it and before the last judgment. We must always watch.

24:1. And Jesus being come out of the temple, went away. And his
disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple.

24:2. And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen
I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that
shall not be destroyed.

24:3. And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him
privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? And what shall
be the sign of thy coming and of the consummation of the world?

24:4. And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce
you.

24:5. For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will
seduce